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Patented June 23, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE H GEORGE O. BRAINARD, OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE GENERAL FIRE- IPROOFING COMPANY, OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO CARD POSTING SAFE Application filed December 16, 1926. Serial No. 155,215.

This invention relates to fireproof ofiic'e or like equipment and more particularly to a safe for housing and protecting card posting systems against fire.

5 Owing to theincreasing use of card posting systems in banks, department stores and other mercantile establishments, the necessity of providing means for adequately protectingand storing these cards in a simple and practical manner becomes of particular importance since the cards contain records and statistics exceedingly vital to a business. Posting clerks usually work on these records all day, and heretofore, card systems have either been left open and unprotected at night, or if possible, the large trays of cards used during the day are carried to a fire resisting safe or vault for storage until the next day. This practice on one hand involves considerable risk, or on the other hand requires much extra labor and the occupation of otherwise valuable vault space.

Accordingly, it is desirable to provide a receptacle or container in which the cards may be permanently housed and yet made always readily available for usein a convenient manner while at the same time enabling them to be protected when not in use by merely closing the container or cabinet, and to that end the invention contemplates a fireproof container or safe built to specifications meeting Fire Underwriters safe requirements,

and at the same time providing means whereby the cards are not only readily accessible but raised to a convenient working height for the operator. In that connection the invention includes in its organization an insulating outer casing or housing having therein a shelf or support for the card tray which may be raised and lowered to bring the tray up to the level of ,or above the top edges of the housing to facilitate the making of records when the safe is opened, and on the other hand when the-cards are completed for the day they may be readily lowered to avoid A further object of the invention is to provide simple and practical means for raising and lowering the shelf or platform which carries or supports the card tray or holder.

With the above and other objects in view which will more readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated and claimed.

A preferred and practical embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which 2-- Figure 1 is a vertical cross-sectional view of a safe constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is a detail horizontal section taken on the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a vertical cross-sectional view taken on the line 33 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a vertical cross-sectional view illustrating a modified form of the invention.

Figure 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view taken on the line 55 ofFigure 4.

Similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in the accompanying drawin s, all forms-thereof include an insulating re resisting container-A comprising the body of the safe, one side of which is closed by the doors B to provide a fire resisting inclosure or chamber C having therein a shelf or platform D for carrying and supporting the holders or trays for thecards. The said platform D is adapted to be raised or lowered to position the card trays or holders at different levels according to whether the doors B are the movement of the card holder or tray and also prevent the mechanism from becoming jammed should cards or papers accidentally I be dropped into the chamber C. In that connection it will also be observed that a portion of the operating mechanism E is disposed below the shelf D so that all of the operating mechanism is efl'ectually housed except perhaps that portion thereof to which power is applied to effect the 'movement thereof.

Referring now more particularly to the details shown in the drawings it will be observed that the shelf or platform D is provided with the depending leg members 1 whose lower ends receive the slidablepins or bolts 2 which project through vertical slots 3 in the panels or plates F to assist in guiding the movement of the shelf independently of the side walls of the insulated safe itself. The said guide pins 2 have connected therewith the links 4 which together with the links 5 provide a toggle device. The links 5 are pivotally but permanently connected to the panels or plates F and-the reinforcing strip F by the studs 6 and in turn the said links 4 and 5 are joined by the pivot pin 7 with a connecting rod -8 which joins the toggle devices at the same side of the safe so that they work in tandem.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3, the shelf D is automatically raised and lowered .by a doorvof the safe. To that end the left-hand door B is provided with a bracket 9 having pivotally secured thereto, as indicated at 10, a curved slotted arm 11, the slot in said arm receiving a sliding pivot member 12 which also rides in the slot 13 of an intermediate actuating link 14. The lower end of this link is 'provided with a slot 15 for receiving the elongated shank portion of the pin'2 which proects through the slot..3, previously referred to With the arrangement above set forth it will be apparent that when the left-hand section ofthe door is opened, the shelf D on which the card-trays are placed will rise vertically a distance suflicient to bring the cards to a convenient working height or clear of the safe molding. The particular arrangement of members 11 .and 14 is such that the shelf D commences to rise after the door reaches a door which merely opens one-half of the safe, and then opening the left-hand door which raises the cards to a convenient work-' ing height. In other words, due to the aropposite set of toggle devices.

' rangement of the arm 11 and the link 14 and to the length of the slots in said arm and link as illustrated by the dotted line showing in Fig. 1 of the drawings, swingin movement of the left-hand door B in sai figure to a substantially vertical position will result first in sliding. movement of the arm 11 relative to the pivot member 12 until the end of the slot in said arm 11 engages said' pin 2, the arm 11, by engagement with the door, as shown by dot and dash lines at the upper left hand corner of Fig. 1, will be prevented from turning on its pivot 10 and as a consequence a pull will be exerted by the door through the arm 11 and the link 14 upon the connected toggles to elevate the shelf D to the dot and dash line shown.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figures 4 and 5 the essential features and characteristics of the invention are preserved, and, therefore, the same reference characters designate the same parts as in Figures 1 to 3 inclusive. The difference in these two constructions resides in the means for actuating the toggle devices 4 and 5. In this form of construction the said toggle members 4 and 5 are connected by an actuating member 8 positioned below the centers of the pivots 77 andhaving the upturned arm portions 8 at the ends thereof. The intermediate body portion of the actuatingrod 8 is provided with a stud 16 adapted to ride in the slot 17 in the lower end of an actuating lever 18, having a square opening to receive a squared portion 19 of the rock shaft 20 which is pivotally journaled as at 21 in the journal members 22 arranged at opposite sides or panels of the safe. I In connection with the rock shaft 20 it will be observed that the same has two squared portions 19, one for engagement by the lever 18 and the other for engagement with the relatively short lever 18 for operating the This rock shaft constitutes the fulcrum for the lever 18 so that when the lever is swung or oscillated, the lower slotted end thereofwill move the actuating member 8 which will cause an upward thrust or push on the pivots 7 to expand the toggle members 4 and 5. The toggle members 4 and 5, are, as previously indicated, arranged in tandem on opposite sides of the safe so that when the rock shaft 20 is moved by the lever 18 all of the toggle units of the device will be operated in umson.

The upper end of the lever 18 is provided with an extensible hand grip 23 so that the same may be lengthened to project upward sufliciently to permit the operator to obtain a ready grip thereonwhen the card-tray is elevated as well as. to facilitate the initial elevation of the shelf D. The said hand grip 23 is provided with slots 24 en ging with the headed studs 25 on the hand e proper to permit of the extension referred to.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that the present invention provides an insulating safe for storing card posting systems in their entirety, that is, without removing the cards or card-trays from the safe for storage elsewhere over night or other periods when they are not in use. In that connection the invention embodies in its organization simple and practical means for supporting and elevating the card tray supporting shelf which is operated and actuated by simple and reliable toggle devices controlled either by the operation of a door of the safe or by a manually operated lever after the safe door or doors have been opened.

I Without further description it is thought that the features and advantages of the invention will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and it will of course be understood that changes in the form, proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted to, without de arting from the thereof, a guide member within the receptacle having a pair of vertical slots, a pan of pins carried by said receptacle and disposed within said slots, respectively, a pair of toggle arms one of which is pivoted at one end to one of said pins and the other of which is pivoted at one end to the other of said pins, a second pair of toggle arms each having a fixed pivotal connection at one end with said guide member and respectively having pivotal connections at their other ends with said first mentioned toggle arms, a link connecting the arms constituting one toggle with the arms constituting the other toggle, and a connection between one of said toggles and said door whereby opening movement of the latter actuates said toggles to elevate said support.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

GEORGE C. BRAINABD.

spirit of the invention an scope of the ap,

pended claims.

' I claim 1. In combination with a receptacle having a door hinged for swinging movement from a position closing'an open side of the receptacle through an arc of approximately 270 to a position overlyin an adjacent side of the receptacle substantially parallel thereto; a support within said receptacle, means mounting said support for movement towards and from the 0 en side of the receptacle comprising a s otted guide member in said guide member, ato gle arm pivotally connected at one end to sai pin, and a second toggle arm having a fixed pivot at one end within the receptacle and pivotally connected at its'other end with the second end of said first mentioned toggle arm, and a connection between said door and said support whereby the final portion at least of opening movement of said door is efl'ective to move said support towards the open side of the receptacle, said connection comprising an arm pivoted to the door, and a lost motion link connection between said arm and said pin.

2. In combination with a receptacle having a door swingable to and from open and closed positions with respect to an open side 

